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The Cost of Long Covid

More than a million people in the UK have long Covid - many of them frontline workers who were described as heroes. But what happens to them when the sick pay runs out?

Latest figures show more than a million people in Britain are suffering from long Covid. For many the condition is completely debilitating. The extreme fatigue, breathing difficulties, brain-fog is forcing hundreds of thousands of previously fit, working people on to long term sick. File on 4 hears from the hero frontline workers who kept Britain going through the pandemic but now feel abandoned. Others reveal how they’ve felt pressurised to return to work even though they’re very ill. So who’s looking after them – and who, if anyone, is going to support them when their sick pay runs out?

Reporter: Paul Kenyon
Producer: Mick Tucker
Editor: Carl Johnston

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Sun 23 May 2021 17:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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